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Quote for the Day

By in Christianity, Spirituality

In many of the houses of the poor in Africa and Latin America, there are no locks on the doors. In fact, in many houses, there are no doors. In the U.S. we have at least two doors per household, and two or three locks per door. Is this a symptom of anything? As a [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 24, 2010

Quote for the Day

By in Spirituality

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting Wait without thought, for you [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 2, 2010

Believe in = Embrace the Mystery of

By in Christianity, Spirituality

I spoke with a friend recently about the concept of belief. We talked about the challenges of believing in the postmodern world. Joni Mitchell sums it up nicely in her song “The Same Situation”: Still I sent up my prayer Wondering where it had to go With heaven full of astronauts And the Lord on [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · May 20, 2010

Quote for the Day

By in Christian mysticism, Contemplation

The cloud of unknowing is that dark and obscure knowledge and love that fills the mind of the contemplative when, void of images and discursive reasoning, it rests silently in God in mystical sleep. The knowledge now suffusing the mind is only that of a faith which, nakedly divorced from any human consideration whatsoever, finds [...]

Read full story · Comments { 1 } · May 19, 2010

Concerning Myth and Miracles

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One of the fun things about blogging is the fact that I’m always getting in trouble, one way or the other. Here’s my latest infraction — on Thursday when I wrote about the Annunciation, I dared to say “Whether the Annunciation be a miracle or a myth, it’s a powerful story that is well worth [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · March 27, 2010

Finding the True Path

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A reader of my blog has emailed me the following questions. They seem to involve the question of how to embrace the Christian mystery when one cannot be sure if it is the “true” path or not. As a former neo-pagan, didn’t you find getting to grips with Christianity’s necessity to hold a set number [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · January 7, 2010

From the Wilderness to Mount Tabor

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I’m still pondering the categories of “wild” and “tame” in relation to God, to the mystical life, and to my own work as a writer. If you’re just joining the conversation, read yesterday’s post and comments to get a sense of where I am. My fellow blogger Benjamin David Steele (whose original thoughts sparked my [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · December 4, 2009
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